User's Manual

Setting the memory manager’s polling interval...........................................................................92
Setting the interval with prmconfig........................................................................................92
Setting the application manager’s polling interval.......................................................................92
Setting the interval with prmconfig........................................................................................92
Disabling PRM ......................................................................................................................93
Disabling PRM with prmconfig.............................................................................................93
Resetting PRM .......................................................................................................................93
Resetting PRM with prmconfig..............................................................................................93
Monitoring PRM groups ..........................................................................................................93
Logging PRM memory messages ..............................................................................................94
Controlling memory logging with prmconfig..........................................................................94
Logging PRM application messages .........................................................................................94
Controlling application logging with prmconfig......................................................................94
Displaying groups’ allocated and used resources........................................................................95
Displaying user information .....................................................................................................95
Displaying available memory to determine number of shares........................................................95
Displaying number of cores to determine number of shares..........................................................96
Displaying past process information .........................................................................................96
Displaying current process information.......................................................................................96
Monitoring PRM with GlancePlus .............................................................................................97
Monitoring PRM with OpenView Performance Agent (OVPA) / OpenView Performance Manager
(OVPM).................................................................................................................................97
Automating PRM administration with scripts ...............................................................................98
Protecting the PRM configuration from reboots............................................................................98
Reconstructing a configuration file ............................................................................................99
Special case of interest: Client/server connections......................................................................99
Online cell operations...........................................................................................................100
Backing up PRM files............................................................................................................100
A Command reference...............................................................................101
prmagt prmagt commandsyntaxcommands prmagtsyntax...........................................................101
prmanalyze ........................................................................................................................102
prmavail displaying available memory with prmavail MEMmemorydisplaying available memory with
prmavailprmavail commandsyntaxcommands prmavailsyntax.....................................................105
prmconfigconfiguring prmconfig syntaxenabling PRM prmconfig syntaxdisabling PRM prmconfig
syntaxconfiguration displaying current configuration informationprmconfig command syntaxcommands
prmconfigsyntax...................................................................................................................106
prminitconfigprminitconfig commandsyntaxcommands prminitconfigsyntax...................................108
prmlist displaying PRM configuration file information with prmlistdisplaying user record information
with prmlistdisplaying group/CPU record information with prmlistdisplaying application record
information with prmlistprmlist commandsyntaxcommands prmlistsyntax.......................................109
prmloadconf prmloadconf commandsyntaxcommands prmloadconfsyntax....................................110
prmmonitorprmmonitor commandsyntaxcommands prmmonitorsyntax..........................................110
Differences in output from prmmonitor and top.....................................................................111
prmmove moving a process between groups prmmove syntaxprmmove commandsyntaxcommands
prmmovesyntax....................................................................................................................111
prmrecoverprmrecover commandsyntaxcommands prmrecoversyntax...........................................112
prmrunapplicationlaunchingprmrun syntaxlaunching an applicationin its assigned grouplaunching
an applicationin a user-specified grouplaunching an applicationin a user’s initial groupprmrun
commandsyntaxcommands prmrunsyntax.................................................................................112
prmsmhconfigprmsmhconfig commandsyntaxcommands prmsmhconfigsyntax...............................113
prm2scompprm2scomp commandsyntaxcommands prm2scompsyntaxSecure Resource Partitions.....114
scomp2prmscomp2prm commandsyntaxcommands scomp2prmsyntax........................................114
srpgensrpgen commandsyntaxcommands srpgensyntaxSecure Resource Partitions.........................114
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